ConSOLE 13 2005 • The Arctic University of Norway

Why can bare NPs in Japanese have universal readings in certain envitonments?

Yukio Furukawa

McGill University

yukio.furukawa@mail.mcgill.ca
Bare NPUniversal ReadingSentential Negation

Abstract

This paper first observes that a bare NP in Japanese can bear a wide scope universal reading over negation, and that its universal reading is not available unless it is a clause-mate of the sentential negation. Then, I propose that the sentential negation marker in Japanese (QDL) is not a simple truth-functional connective, but a total adjective which induces a universal reading of a bare NP.

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Yukio Furukawa (2005). why can bare nps in japanese have universal readings in certain envitonments?. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 13, edited by Sylvia Blaho, Luis Vicente, Erik Schoorlemmer, (pp. 91-105).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Furukawa-ConSOLE13-2005, title={Why can bare NPs in Japanese have universal readings in certain envitonments?}, author={Yukio Furukawa}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 13}, year={2005}, pages={91-105}, editor={Sylvia Blaho and Luis Vicente and Erik Schoorlemmer} }

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